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Collaborating with the Enemy, Second Edition: How to Work with...
This bestselling conflict resolution book has helped thousands of people effectively collaborate across deep divides. Now it’s been updated with 50 percent new material for...
Category: Conflict
The Ultimate Intercultural Question Book: 1000+ Questions to Deepen Your...
The best learning comes from the best questions. When connecting with people, knowing how to ask questions is the gateway to gaining true insight into...
Category: Communication, Inter-Cultural, Intercultural Communication, Our Reading List
Your Life is Your Message: Discovering the Core of Transformational...
This book is a call to adventure, an opportunity to live life to the fullest and a guide to discover your own path towards transformational...
Category: Leadership, Management
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of...
Conflict is increasing everywhere, threatening everything we hold dear—from our families to our democracy, from our workplaces to our world. In nearly every area of society,...
Category: Conflict, Our Reading List
Management Across Cultures
In today's highly competitive global economy, it is said that most managers are - or soon will be - global managers. Whether they work abroad...
Category: Cross Cultural, Human Resource, Inter-Cultural, Leadership, Management
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
From the Harvard Negotiation Project—which brought you the megabestseller GETTING TO YES—this practical guide will help you handle your most difficult conversations with confidence and...
Category: Communication, Conflict, Cultural Intelligence, Human Resource, Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Certified Leadership Professional CLP Body of Knowledge
Certified Leadership Professional CLP is a certification for professionals who demonstrate knowledge, skills and competencies in leadership as per the requirements of the Canadian College for...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership, Management
Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages
This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for...
The essential guide when you make the challenging yet rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful, Everyone...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership, Management
Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations
This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which people differ – including race, gender identity, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and social...
Category: Diversity, Latest Books
How to Be an Inclusive Leader, Second Edition: Your Role...
This compelling and inspiring call to action for leaders at every level helps them find their role and voice in affecting societal and workplace change....
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resource
Leadership . . . in Crisis
This book focuses on leading through times of crisis as a true measure of authentic and credible leadership, which is often tested during turbulent, inconsistent,...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership
Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and...
There's never been more discussion around diversity and inclusion in the workplace. From gender pay gaps and the #MeToo movement to Black Lives Matter, it...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resource
Intercultural Management: Concepts, Practice, Critical Reflection
This textbook explores the reasons for intercultural differences and their effects on the behavior of individuals and organizations within the context of management. The text...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Management
Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace
The award-winning Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide you with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective. Author Michalle...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Management
Cultural intelligence Complete Self-Assessment Guide
Does cultural intelligence increase work engagement? How do you gain cultural intelligence? Is cultural intelligence different from emotional intelligence and social intelligence? Is your level...
Category: Cultural Intelligence
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and...
The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be...
Category: Management, Our Reading List
Success Is What You Leave Behind: Fostering Leadership and Innovation
Success Is What You Leave Behind: Fostering Leadership and Innovation reveals the 16 proven practices that Dr. Cato T. Laurencin has used to build his distinguished...
Category: Leadership
Inter-Cultural Intelligence: From Surviving to Thriving in the Global Space
Moving between cultures has always been a challenge and one that humanity has tried to master by providing dos and don’ts lists for cultures foreign...
Category: Management
Making Sense of Culture
This book lies within two interdisciplinary fields that should be bridged: cross-cultural management and international human resource management. The consequences of globalization lead to a...
Category: Cross Cultural, Human Resource, Management
The Art of Crossing Cultures 3rd Edition
From the author of Why Travel Matters, the third edition of the essential book to bridge cultures and countries. Adjusting to a new culture and getting along...
Category: Culture Shock, Latest Books
Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move...
Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
Intercultural Communication for Global Business: How leaders communicate for success
This book brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication in a concise and practical manner, focusing on communication as the foundation for management...
Category: Communication & Branding
Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use it
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Understanding Intercultural Communication
Understanding Intercultural Communication, 3rd Edition (UIC3) emphasizes a perspective that integrates intersectional identity complexity with a strong values orientation in shaping intercultural contact. We address...
Category: Communication & Branding
Running the Corporate Offense: Lessons in Effective Leadership from the...
From the CEO of the top wholesale mortgage lender in the country comes this fascinating analysis of the ways sports leadership translates into professional life...
Category: Leadership, Management
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones—"a...
Category: Latest Books, Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Management: Take Charge of Your Team: Communication, Leadership, Coaching and...
Team management is important, but it isn’t about being important. It’s about being there for your team members when they need you and overseeing the project...
Category: Leadership, Management
Executive Leadership Management A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition
What are the usability implications of Executive leadership management actions? What are (control) requirements for Executive leadership management Information? Was a Executive leadership management charter...
Category: Leadership, Management
Employee Coaching A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition
There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Employee Coaching essentials are covered, from every angle:...
Category: Coaching, Management
Talent Management Leadership A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition
All the tools you need to an in-depth Talent Management Leadership Self-Assessment. Featuring 940 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of...
Category: Leadership, Management
Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global...
The investment in global collaboration technology now exceeds US$45 billion. Professionals who work across cultures face some of the most cognitively, psychologically and emotionally difficult...
Category: Cross Cultural, Cultural Intelligence, Inter-Cultural, Leadership, Management
Management Leadership Development Program A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition
All the tools you need to an in-depth Management Leadership Development Program Self-Assessment. Featuring 968 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas...
Category: Leadership, Management
Servant Leadership In Education A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership, Management
Executive Leadership Development A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition
This best-selling Executive Leadership Development self-assessment will make you the entrusted Executive Leadership Development domain standout by revealing just what you need to know to...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership, Management
Crossing Cultures with Grace and Humor
Which culture is the “best?” Which group has life figured out, and which is still evolving? Who has it right, and why doesn’t everyone else...
Category: Cross Cultural, Cultural Intelligence, Inter-Cultural
Servant Leadership Strategy A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition
How do you use servant leadership strategy data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation? Are there servant leadership strategy problems defined? Why...
Category: Leadership
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Author Kathryn Sorrells highlights history,...
Category: Communication & Branding
Intercultural Communication in Contexts
Intercultural Communication in Contexts examines communication in multicultural relationships and provides the tools for effective communication amid cultural, ethnic, and religious differences in domestic and global...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Organizational Leadership A Complete Guide – 2021 Edition
This Organizational Leadership Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership, Management
Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential...
#1 Award Winner (Gold Medal), Business Category - 2021 Next Generation Indie Book AwardsThis book should be integrated into our schools globally. It's that good! -- Next...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business-Fourth...
The bestselling guide to leading effectively in a global business environment―now updated to address radical changes in politics, society, economics and tech There’s so much...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence: Revisited
This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st...
Category: Communication & Branding
Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications
Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones, this international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research...
Category: Cross Cultural, Psychology
The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias: How To Reframe Bias,...
Ideal for every manager who wants to understand and move past their own preconceived ideas, The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias explains that bias is the...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity, Human Resource, Management
Servant Leadership A Complete Guide – 2021 Edition
This Servant Leadership Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and...
Category: Leadership
Distributed Leadership A Complete Guide – 2021 Edition
How did distributed leadership make a difference in your professional practice? How do employees perceive democratic and distributed leadership in organizations? How does cultivating empowering...
Category: Leadership, Management
Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies From Antiquity to...
This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures. Through a collection of highly...
Category: Leadership
Transnational Organizations and Cross-Cultural Workplaces
This work explores everyday face-to-face interactions between expatriate and host national employees in cross-cultural offices of transnational organizations and corporations. Applying the concepts of cosmopolitanism,...
Category: Transition
Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times: Navigating...
This book, written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, explores the transformation of organizations in today’s volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It demonstrates the...
Category: Leadership, Management
An Introduction to Intercultural Communication – International Student Edition: Identities...
The Tenth Edition of An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares today’s readers to successfully navigate our increasingly global community. Fred E. Jandt introduces essential communication skills and concepts that...
Category: Communication & Branding
Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
n a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Overall Winner of the 2019 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Blue Peter Book Award In the vein of timely titles such as...
Category: Conflict, Education, School & Teaching, Inter-Cultural
African Americans in Higher Education: A Critical Study of Social...
While there is a wealth of scholarship on Africana Education, no single volume has examined the roles of such important topics as Black Male Identity,...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Race
Getting Teamwork Right: The key to happy, successful and resilient...
Today’s teams are working in an agile, interconnected and complex world, but despite the opportunities for collaboration, many teams are held back by poor communication,...
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
5 Modes of Leadership: How to Adapt Your Style to...
This book offers comprehensive advice, based on decades of successful training results, skillfully condensed into an easily digested format. This original blueprint for leadership will...
Category: Leadership, Management
Intercultural Communication – International Student Edition: A Contextual Approach
This resource looks at every aspect of intercultural communication from extensive number of insightful angles, including of contexts such as cultural or ethnic, geographic and...
Category: Communication & Branding
Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach
Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach introduces students to the fundamental topics, theories, concepts, and themes of intercultural communication. Best-selling author James W. Neuliep presents a clear...
Category: Communication, Inter-Cultural, Intercultural Communication
Class Inequality in the Global City: Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism...
In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books, Transition
Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows...
Many people have little sense of their talents and strengths, much less the ability to build their lives around them. Instead, they are raised and...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership, Management, Our Reading List
Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is...
Category: Diversity
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies “There...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits
Managing Diversity and Inclusion: An International Perspective
Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this authoritative account sets UK and European practices firmly within a global context. It offers an in-depth...
Category: Diversity, Latest Books
Education, Law and Diversity: Schooling for One and All?
This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how...
Category: Diversity, Education, School & Teaching
The Neurodiverse Workplace
Estimates suggest that up to 20% of employees, customers and clients might have a neurodivergent condition - such as dyslexia, autism, Asperger's, ADHD or dyspraxia...
Category: Diversity
Torah and Nondualism: Diversity, Conflict, and Synthesis
Torah and Nondualism is a commentary on the Torah, or Pentateuch, meaning “five books,” written in the form of five essays―one for each book. It reconciles...
Category: Conflict
Emotional Intelligence: Raise Your EQ (Mastering Self Awareness & Controlling...
Do you often find yourself struggling to get a handle on your emotions? How many times have you found yourself feeling guilt, regret even over...
Category: Management
Mind Map Mastery: The Complete Guide to Learning and Using...
''''I would recommend Tony's new book to anybody who wants to improve their thinking and achieve Mind Map mastery themselves.'''' - Dominic O'Brien, eight-time World...
Category: Learning, Our Reading List
The Character Gap: How Good Are We?
We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Our Reading List
Superfast: Lead at Speed
In today's fast-paced world, leaders need to move at speed. The rate of innovation and change in organizations and the challenges of impatient investors or...
Category: Leadership, Management
Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a...
While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In...
Category: Latest Books, Race
Supporting People Living with Dementia in Black, Asian and Minority...
Focusing on individual Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities such as Irish, Caribbean, South Asian, Chinese and Jewish, this accessible guide brings together key...
Category: Country Specific, Cultural Intelligence, Latest Books
The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education
This handbook examines policy and practice from around the world with respect to broadly conceived notions of inclusion and diversity within education. It sets out to provide...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
BEING!: FIVE WAYS OF LEADING AUTHENTICALLY IN AN ICONNECTED WORLD
Being! Five ways of leading authentically in an iConnected world is rooted in leadership practice across many sectors and its raison d'etre is to build adaptiveness...
Category: Leadership, Management
Secrets of Successful Public Speaking: How to Become a Great...
This book is a "short course"on public speaking to become an accomplished speaker. It presents key ideas andinsights about public speaking, presentation skills, and communication...
Category: Communication
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Styles: Exploring the Relationship between Emotional...
All around the world, information technology is evolving at an alarming rate, and it could be challenging keeping up with the growing changes that we...
Category: Leadership, Understanding Human behavior
High-Performance Practice: Management, Marketing and Leadership
Dr. Justin Shows You The Trifecta for Successful Growth of Any Business: Management: People, Time and Money Marketing: Magnetically Attract and Retain More Patients Leadership: Empower Your Team...
Category: Leadership, Management, Marketing & Sales
Intercultural Crisis Communication: Translation, Interpreting and Languages in Local Crises
Intercultural Crisis Communication poses pertinent questions and provides powerful responses to crises that have characterised the modern world since 2010. Language mediation in situations of...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Conditioned Reflex Therapy: How to be Assertive, Happy and Authentic,...
Welcomed as a revolutionary and effective approach to improve people’s mental health and help them find happiness when it was first published in 1949, Andrew...
Category: Psychology, Understanding Human behavior
Smarter Decision-Making (Organizational Management, 1)
Avoiding poor decisions in any facet of life starts by truly listening for the meaning in the messages we receive. In today’s fast paced business...
Category: Decision Making, Leadership, Understanding Human behavior
Made to Thrive: The Five Roles to Evolve Beyond Your...
What is the difference between a good leader, and a great leader? What results do great leaders consistently achieve, and what activities do they perform...
Category: Leadership, Organizational Culture and Consulting
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create...
In What You Do Is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz, bestselling author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, turns his attention to a question crucial to...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Human Resource, Leadership, Management, Our Reading List
Bounce Back: How to Fail Fast and be Resilient at...
Success. Innovation. Creativity. Growth. We all want these things at work - but the one thing they all have in common is that they involve...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Understanding Human behavior
Transforming Professional Practice: A Framework for Effective Leadership
In this updated 2nd edition, the authors created a blueprint for educational leaders to arrive at an understanding of the complexity of shared leadership for...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Leadership
Leading Schools with Unique Populations: An International Perspective on School...
This book brings an international perspective of school leadership, but this time, examines how such leadership can have a positive impact on students considered to...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Education, School & Teaching, Leadership
Managing Startup Enterprises in Emerging Markets: Leadership Dynamics and Marketing...
This book provides a comprehensive view of the entrepreneurial dynamics within startups by analyzing their marketing strategies in the context of exploiting new opportunities, enhancing...
Category: Leadership, Management, Marketing & Sales
Organizations for People: Caring Cultures, Basic Needs, and Better Lives
For many years, there has been quite a bit of talk about employee engagement as a means to lift corporate profits and reduce absenteeism and...
Category: Leadership, Management, Organizational Culture and Consulting
The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for...
You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. How can you be the leader you want to be, every day? The...
Category: Leadership, Management
Invest!: How Great Leaders Accelerate Success And Improve Results
INVEST! is a captivating parable about what great leaders must do to solve today’s most pressing challenges. It offers wisdom that is easy to understand...
Category: Leadership, Management
Leading From the Edge of the Inside: Embracing the Heart...
With the many challenges facing owners and leadership teams of privately-owned companies, trying to lead effectively can a bit elusive. The problems we face as...
Category: Leadership, Management
Lead with Appreciation: Fostering a Culture of Gratitude (A Lead...
Positive recognition and appreciation can transform your school from a place where people have to work into one where they want to work and enjoy...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Leadership, Management
Contrasting Arguments: The Culture War and the Clash in Education
Contrasting Arguments presents the variable story of the culture wars and the clash in education from the point of view of the principal actors on the...
Category: Cross Cultural, Education, School & Teaching, Leadership, Learning
Group Coaching: Raising Leadership Consciousness, Effectiveness, and Engagement in Organizations:...
Janet Steinwedel's work with groups aims for a net increase in consciousness in the organization or community in which she is working. This is the...
Category: Coaching, Leadership, Psychology
The Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading Others...
In today's business world, we find ourselves in a conundrum: While there have never been so many books, blogs, speakers, and seminars on leadership, there...
Category: Leadership, Management
Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership: To...
This is the first book to describe in detail the principles of Outward Bound, told through the stories of former instructors and graduates who show...
Category: Coaching, Leadership
Tactical Influence: A Practical Approach to Increase Your Influence and...
Regardless of who you are, there is no one correct way of how you should lead and influence. Yes, there are benchmark guidelines for doing...
Category: Leadership, Management, Understanding Human behavior
The Four Greatest Coaching Conversations: Change mindsets, shift attitudes, and...
Based on data and insights from over 100k virtual and in-person coaching conversations conducted by the talented coaches of BTS Coach, comes the first book...
Category: Coaching, Leadership
The Coaching Book: Practical Steps to Becoming a Confident Coach...
Coaching is an art, but it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide an...
Category: Coaching, Coaching & Facilitating, Understanding Human behavior
Lean On: The Five Pillars Of Support For Women In...
An entrepreneur and business leader, Andreas has also spent time in the home, raising his children and supporting his executive wife in her business aspirations....
Category: Leadership
